Swan Dive Branding

Branding for Swan DIve, an outdoor venue on the Gowanus Canal.

This was a self-initiated project where I explored a new restaurant that had 2 different businesses running in the same space. The venue and bar component is Swan Dive and they house an annual pop-up restaurant. This year the restaurant was Pig Beach.

Restauranteurs were confused by this concept and I felt it was a perfect opportunity to explore the power of observation based design, strong branding and signage.

2015

Casey & Anne

Event Design for an Americana baseball themed wedding!

All signage, chalkboards, carved watermelon, baseball cards, and pennants designed and styled by Sharp Shooter Signs (my former company).

Scenes From a Couch

Photograph of a Mouse

Photography of a Key

Photograph of Baby Shoe

mixed media2010

In the Scenes from a Couch series I was exploring the concepts of photography and the object. Trying to see if a couch would still be identifiable when deconstructed, I ripped apart and documented a vintage-horse hair love seat. During deconstruction I discovered items left behind by it's previous owners.

As I was photographing it, I began to think about the documentation process and what the act of taking a photograph actually is. Framing an image means that we are deleting all of the information outside of the area of focus. Here I am actually placing the frame around the focus of my "photograph" to preserve its likeness.

Exhibited at the Affordable Art Fair 2012-Sold

San Bernardino

lithograph2007

A dream about my childhood hometown.

I Just Can't Take More Rabbits and Wolves

ink illustration2010

Death's Dinner

collagraph2012

When I stopped being a vegetarian I had to finally come to grips with the fact that death gives me life.

Mindful

intaglio2007

Unintentional Canvas

blood, urine, tea, bleach, futon mattress2007

In school I was asked to make yet another self portrait. For the last few years I had been sleeping on a hand-me-down futon mattress, which had accumulated many stains from basic bodily functions and spills. When making my bed it struck me how canvas-like the bedding material was, it in itself was a unintentional self portrait. I collected more blood, urine, and tea and painted my sleeping likeness on the mattress, incorporating the already existing stains.